Brains Bridges

Dewey "the Brains" Bridges (1868-2 June 1897) was an American outlaw of the Old West. An associate of Doc Rose, he was killed at the age of 29 in a shootout in 1897.

Biography
Dewey Bridges was born in Houston, Texas in 1868 to a family of cattle ranchers. He was nicknamed "brains" because he was known to have poor intellect, and he joined with Doc Rose's gang of train robbers in 1889. Bridges took part in the robbery of the "Western Bullet" train of the Union Pacific Railroad in 1890, and in 1890-1897 he robbed ten trains in the south, primarily in Texas. He built up quite a reputation for himself, and a $2,500 bounty was posted on him in 1896. Bridges initially hoped to gain amnesty for his crimes, promising to give up his robberies, but the law enforcement of Lubbock did not trust him. Bridges was forced to go on the run, and in June 1897 he holed up in a boarding house in Artesia, New Mexico. Bridges was killed by a posse in a shootout along with another outlaw that was also harbored in the house.